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Characterizing antibiotics in LCA—a review of current practices and proposed novel approaches for including resistance
dc.creator | Nyberg, O. | en_US |
dc.creator | Rico, A. | en_US |
dc.creator | Guinée, J.B. | en_US |
dc.creator | Henriksson, P.J. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-13T08:07:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-13T08:07:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nyberg, O. Rico, A. Guinée, J. B. et al. Characterizing antibiotics in LCA—a review of current practices and proposed novel approaches for including resistance. Int J Life Cycle Assess (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-021-01908-y | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0948-3349 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1614-7502 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4788 | |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose With antibiotic resistance (ABR) portrayed as an increasing burden to human health, this study reviews how and to what extent toxicological impacts from antibiotic use are included in LCAs and supplement this with two novel approaches to include ABR, a consequence of antibiotic use, into the LCA framework. Methods We review available LCA studies that deal with toxicological aspects of antibiotics to evaluate how these impacts from antibiotics have been characterized. Then, we present two novel approaches for including ABR-related impacts in life cycle impact assessments (LCIAs). The first approach characterizes the potential for ABR enrichment in the environmental compartment as a mid-point indicator, based on minimum selective concentrations for pathogenic bacteria. The second approach attributes human health impacts as an endpoint indictor, using quantitative relationships between the use of antibiotics and human well-being. Results and discussion Our findings show that no LCA study to date have accounted for impacts related to ABR. In response, we show that our novel mid-point indicator approach could address this by allowing ABR impacts to be characterized for environmental compartments. We also establish cause-efect pathways between antibiotic use, ABR, and human well-being that generate results which are comparable with USEtox and most endpoint impact assessment approaches for human toxicology. Conclusions Our proposed methods show that currently overlooked impacts from ABR enrichment in the environment could be captured within the LCA framework as a robust characterization methodology built around the established impact model USEtox. Substantial amounts of currently unavailable data are, however, needed to calculate emissions of antibiotics into the environment, to develop minimum selective concentrations for non-pathogenic bacteria, and to quantify potential human health impacts from AB use. | en_US |
dc.format | en_US | |
dc.language | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer (part of Springer Nature) | en_US |
dc.rights | CC-BY-4.0 | en_US |
dc.source | International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment;(2021) | en_US |
dc.subject | lca | en_US |
dc.subject | resistance | en_US |
dc.subject | human health impacts | en_US |
dc.subject | usetox | en_US |
dc.title | Characterizing antibiotics in LCA—a review of current practices and proposed novel approaches for including resistance | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
cg.contributor.crp | Fish | en_US |
cg.contributor.crp | Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals | en_US |
cg.coverage.region | Global | en_US |
cg.subject.agrovoc | antibiotics | en_US |
cg.subject.agrovoc | amr | en_US |
cg.subject.agrovoc | toxicology | en_US |
cg.subject.agrovoc | antimicrobials | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | WorldFish | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | The University of Tokyo | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Pisa, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environment | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | Stockholm University | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | IMDEA | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | Institute of Environmental Sciences- Leiden University | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | Stockholm Resilience Centre | en_US |
cg.contributor.affiliation | Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics | en_US |
cg.identifier.status | Open access | en_US |
cg.identifier.ISIindexed | ISI indexed | en_US |
cg.description.theme | Miscellaneous themes | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-021-01908-y | en_US |
cg.creator.id | Patrik John Gustav Henriksson: 0000-0002-3439-623X | en_US |
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